I've never understood the burning need to know who is behind any of the anonymous blogs...three-quarters of the fun is playing along with the anonymous personality. Miss Snark would never have been as much fun if we'd known who she was, don't you think?

Terribly sorry, but why does it matter, if you have not posted an identity, who you are? You give great advice and insight, and you have a great sense of humor. In an editor, that's pretty amazing, if you ask me. Keep it up!

As for mistaking you for a man...well...I never would have. You have a distinctly feminine way of speech and expression.

There's a website (whose address I've completely forgotten), but you can type in some text, and it will analyze the voice. It was quite fun. Probably completely sexist. But still fun....:-)*looking up male editors at S & S*

I think I actually do know who the agent Miss Snark is, her sentence structure, word choices, and texture of how she writes is obvious to me from another publishing blog ... but I was sad when I figured it out, because I really didn't want to know -- which is why I'm not going to tell anyone.

I like mystery. My only concern -- and why I only post here as "anonymous" when I post -- is that you will eventually be my editor and then I'll have to worry about all the insiped posts I've made, and you'll think... THAT writer? I don't want to represent her, her posts are so whiny, incomplete, overbearing, boring (insert any other adjective...)

Any one of us would love to have you as an editor, myself included. No one needs someone in their corner more than a writer, imo, and you do seem to be not just astute about the industry, but inclusive and encouraging. Pardon me for all that ass-kissing, but it's rough out there, this blog is safe.

I'm just always careful about posting on your blog because I can't help but assume you actually are my editor. The fact that you come right out and say you are NOT Lisa Graff is good because she works with him!

I wonder if anyone has ever hired a private detective to snoop out an editor's real identity? Not sure if that would work...hmm, but first I'd need lots of money. I guess your secret is safe for another year or so.

We know Evil Editor is a mechanic named Joe (or a woman from Argentina) and not an editor at all. I'm suspecting the same here. It's that lure of pretending to be an overworked, underpaid, underappreciated editor. Just pulls you in. I understand.

Hmmm...I automatically assumed you were a woman, North American for sure, likely Ontarian or from the Northeast of the States, though less sure on that. This is all from your vocabulary, of course. I also speak and write 'British' (apparently I have very English pauses) but am not, so I empathize with that.

Guessing accurately is par for the course, so long as you're all part of the same culture, since we're subconsciously good at making suppositions about people from the tone of writing. I'd assume that you could guess with reasonable accuracy the gender of a writer of a childern's story, for instace. And that's the particular you, not general one.

Well, that's an American version of 'Permanent Rose' on the bookshelf, and I'm pretty sure Canada would have the British edition, wouldn't it? (Correct me if I'm wrong).

I never thought you were British - a British childhood would have been full of Shirley Hughes and Very Hungry Caterpillers and Alan Albergh and similar. You make WAY too many references to Dr Seuss and Goodnight Moon to have grown up in Britain. Unless you had American family.

You are a cute little squirrel with an adoring grandma and some sort of not very interesting phobia which, through the power of grandmotherly love and belief in yourself, you're gradually getting over.